A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. Ill 



luxurious court could boaft. But what a 

 change has taken place lince that time ! 



What now avails that o'er the vaflal plain 

 His rights and rich demefnes extended wide, 



That honor and her knights compofed his train, 

 And chivalry flood marfliaU'd by his fide. 



Though to the clouds his caftle feem'd to climb, 

 And frown'd defiance on the defperate foe ; 



Though deem'd invincible, the conqueror, Time, 

 Levell'd the fabric as the founder low. 



Yet the hoar tyrant, though not mov'd to fpare, 

 Relented when he ftruck its finifh'd pride, 



And partly the rude ravage to repair, 



The tott'ring towers with twilled ivy tied. 



The walls around this town,* which are 

 built upon the folid rock, and betwixt 



twelve 



* The mode of defending a town, before the in- 

 troduction of gunpowder and artillery, was by a 

 number of fmall towers, capable of containing 

 twenty or thirty men each, flanking and defending 



the 



